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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'No notice',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/07/04.jpg" alt="Trees in the city" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="mother">
	<h2>My mother</h2>
	<p>
		My mother popped in and thought she&apos;d take me to Portland for her yearly festivities without any warning whatsoever.
		Wow.
		I actually did not see that coming.
		I predicted she&apos;d expected me to ask her to let me come, and when I didn&apos;t, she decided not to bring me this year.
		Even though the only reason I ever go is for her benefit, not mine.
		But no.
		She&apos;d seen my work schedule on the wall, seen that I&apos;d had today and tomorrow off, and assumed she could take those two days from me with no warning at all.
	</p>
	<p>
		I explained that I&apos;d been planning to make that trip work, but that since she never contacted me, I&apos;d ended up taking extra hours at work instead of finishing my coursework.
		That I wasn&apos;t free today, as I had an essay to write, but I would&apos;ve been free if she&apos;d given me the heads up earlier on.
		Hopefully she gets the point that she needs to give me warning if she thinks she&apos;s going to take an entire day&apos;s worth of my time.
		I can&apos;t just drop everything at a moment&apos;s notice.
		I also said I&apos;d be free tomorrow in the morning, but not the evening, but it seems that was a moot point.
		She only wanted tomorrow to extend the stay today to go beyond midnight.
		It sounds like she didn&apos;t want to stay in Portland overnight or anything, but with fireworks being a dark-time activity and Portland being so far away, we wouldn&apos;t get home until early morning.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You make a very good point that we form our views of reality very early on based on information given to us by others, and that we have to trust that information and assume it to be accurate or distrust it and assume it isn&apos;t.
			Your example of the earth being round is a great example.
			Our teachers tell us early on that our planet is round, but what proof do we have as children that this is even true?
			Most of us accept it as fact even in the absence of proof!
			As we age, this idea of a round world is drilled into us and reinforced.
			We can find evidence that it&apos;s likely true easily enough, but most of us don&apos;t even bother because we don&apos;t even question it.
		</p>
		<p>
			Another great example is religion.
			Most of us inherit our religion from our parents.
			Our parents tell us these things are true and we just accept them, usually unquestioningly.
			I&apos;m sort of an oddball in that regard, as I&apos;m of a different religion than my parents, but they did try.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			It&apos;s interesting that for you, a comedy must transport you outside your current reality.
			Why is that?
			For me, I usually keep my time and place when experiencing comedy.
			There are exceptions, but I experience comedy nearly every day without needing to imagine I&apos;m elsewhere.
			Maybe it&apos;s because of the format.
			I&apos;m not the type to watch television, while you say you prefer television as your comedy format (and prefer other formats for other types of entertainment).
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;d never heard the phrase until I heard Marc sing it.
			I assumed he&apos;d made it up as a pun.
			I guess it&apos;s an in-use phrase though.
			It just goes to show that everything is derivative; nothing is original, so people that try to &quot;own&quot; ideas are deluding the populace, and sometimes even deluding themselves.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			It&apos;s all well and good that it could be tailored to circumstances, but what about differing moralities?
			What I deem as wrong in a certain circumstance might not match what you deem as wrong in the same exact circumstances.
			Without an objective way to measure morality, how could your cosmic tally sheet exist?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			In what way am I trying to disassociate myself from the reality I&apos;m a part of?
			I think you&apos;ve entirely misinterpreted my post.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Like I told Fon Roland Achu, the discussion assignment said to address each of the two topics as a <strong>*separate post*</strong>, so my discussion of the grandfather paradox is in the next post down.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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